Computer Games Development

In the Computer Games: Development unit you are required to create the game that you designed and created assets for in the earlier units.

In order to do this, you will have to learn some new programming languages and constructs. Your teacher will recommend one of the languages below for you to learn.

When you are ready you can work on creating your own game

Games Development Theory:

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Pygame

Pygame is currently the only option for programming in this course. Pygame is suitable for pupils attempting levels 5 and 6.

Core Pygame Programming Exercises:

The Main Loop

Subclasses, Events & Logic

Animating Sprites

Collision Detection

Maps & Tiles

Gravity & Jumping

Sound & Music

The Mouse Pointer

User Interface Elements

Advanced Pygame Programming Exercises:

Killing Sprites

Map Classes

Loading Maps

Scrolling Maps

Sprite Sheets

Simple Follow AI

Assembling Multiple Surfaces

Sample Pygame Games:

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You can download and use the files below if you do not have suitable files of your own from earlier in the course to use with these exercises

Level 4 Development Environment

Exercises for creating games at level 4 will be posted here later